Manuel Schäffler

Manuel Schäffler
Manuel Schäffler at Wehen Wiesbaden 2018
Personnel
birthday	February 6, 1989
place of birth	Fürstenfeldbruck ,  Germany
size	189 cm
position	Storm
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2001	TSV Moorenweis
2001-2007	TSV 1860 Munich
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2007-2011	TSV 1860 Munich II	50 (16)
2008-2011	TSV 1860 Munich	57 0(5)
2010-2011	→  MSV Duisburg  (loan)	21 0(4)
2010-2011	→  MSV Duisburg II  (loan)	2 0(1)
2012-2014	FC Ingolstadt 04	41 0(6)
2012-2014	FC Ingolstadt 04 II	4 0(1)
2014-2016	Holstein Kiel	84 (13)
2016-2020	SV Wehen Wiesbaden	136 (71)
2020–	1. FC Nuremberg	0 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2008-2009	Germany U20	7 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. Status: August 14, 2020

Manuel Schäffler (born February 6, 1989 in Fürstenfeldbruck ) is a German football player . The striker has been in the squad of the second division club 1. FC Nürnberg since August 2020 . Before that, he played 255 times in the 2nd Bundesliga for TSV 1860 Munich , MSV Duisburg , FC Ingolstadt 04 and SV Wehen Wiesbaden . In addition, Schäffler was active seven times for the German U20 .

career

societies

Schäffler began playing football at TSV Moorenweis and moved to TSV 1860 Munich in 2001. The young attacker played his first game in the U23 of the sixties on March 11, 2007 in the regional league game of the little lions with the second team of VfB Stuttgart , where he came on in the 62nd minute. By the end of the season he was substituted on in three other games. In the 2007/08 season Schäffler was an integral part of the regional league team, he scored seven goals in 24 games.

TSV 1860 Munich (on loan to MSV Duisburg)

In the summer of 2008, Schäffler was appointed to the professional squad by coach Marco Kurz . He made his professional debut in the 2nd Bundesliga on February 22nd, 2008 in a game at 1. FC Köln . In the first half of the 2008/09 season he was used regularly, but he was denied scoring. At the game in Mainz on the 19th match day, in which he played his 18th game as a professional, he finally scored his first goal. He was also able to convince in the following league games and was therefore voted player of the day of the 2nd Bundesliga by the kicker on the 22nd matchday, after his performance in the 5-1 win against FC St. Pauli . For the 2009/10 season , Schäffler's contract was extended to 2012. During this season he only made ten short appearances under coach Ewald Lienen . In total, he only played 130 minutes for the first team, for the second team he played 16 games. In summer 2010 Schäffler was awarded to league competitor MSV Duisburg for the 2010/11 season . There he was used in 21 games and scored four goals, with his first goal for the Ruhrgebietsverein on matchday 20 against the Munich Lions. After he returned to Munich in the summer of 2011, he was only a substitute player there, as before the loan. Until the winter break of the 2011/12 season he was used 14 times, but only came on in the second half. In addition to a goal in the 2nd Bundesliga, he scored another for the second team in the Regionalliga Süd, for which he appeared three times. Schäffler had played a total of 57 second division games for the Lions , in which he scored five goals. He played in the DFB Cup three times . For the U-23 he came to 50 missions in the regional league, where he scored 16 goals.

FC Ingolstadt

At the beginning of January 2012, Schäffler switched to league competitor FC Ingolstadt 04 , where he signed a contract until 2014. On the 29th matchday of the 2011/12 season he was voted into the "team of the matchday" after his performance in the game against Alemannia Aachen . Overall, Schäffler was mostly used as a substitute at the FCI. On January 31, 2014, he canceled his contract, which had been dated until the end of the season, and moved to Holstein Kiel in the 3rd division .

Holstein Kiel

With 10 goals in 37 games, Schäffler played his part in reaching the relegation place for the promotion games to the 2nd Bundesliga from the league representative from Schleswig-Holstein in the 3rd league season 2014/15 . After his 3 goals in the league game against Halleschen FC on the 14th matchday, he was chosen as the player of this 3rd league game day by the kicker. In the following season , which was not so successful for Kiel, he was mostly used as a substitute and scored 3 goals.

SV Wehen Wiesbaden

In June 2016 he switched to league competitor SV Wehen Wiesbaden. After a successful 2016/17 season with 13 league goals, his contract was prematurely extended by one year to 2019. He scored 11 of his goals this season in the second half of the season and, as the best scorer of his team, had a large share in the fact that the club, which was still threatened with relegation after the first half of the season, was able to hold the league. After being elected to the “Eleven of the Day” due to his performances after the 23rd and 25th matchday, he was elected player of this matchday of the 3rd division on the last matchday after his 3 goals in the game against FSV Frankfurt . In the following season 2017/18 he was next to Stephan Hain and Benjamin Girth one of the most successful goal scorers in the league in the first half of the season and reached third place in the table with his club halfway through the season. For his achievements he was voted "Player of the Day" of the league by the kicker on the 11th and 14th matchdays. Schäffler continued to play successfully in the second half of the season and was reelected as the player of the respective match day on the 30th and 36th matchdays. At the end of the season, SV Wehen Wiesbaden took fourth place in the table, to which Schäffler had contributed with 22 goals and thus became the top scorer in the third division. In the 2018/19 season , the SVWW came third and prevailed in the subsequent relegation against FC Ingolstadt, Schäffler scored 16 times this season. He then extended his expiring contract with SVWW for another two years. In the second division season 2019/20 Schäffler scored 19 goals, but could not prevent the direct relegation of the SVWW to the third division.

1. FC Nuremberg

He then moved back to the 2nd Bundesliga for 1. FC Nürnberg in mid-August 2020 .

National team

Manuel Schäffler was on call for the U19 European Championship in the Czech Republic in 2008 , but was not nominated again. On September 3, 2008, he played his first international match in the test match between the German U20s and Austria. In 2009 he was part of the German squad at the Junior World Championship in Egypt . He was used for the German team, who were eliminated in the quarter-finals, four times and scored one goal.

Achievements / Awards

• Player of the match day in the 2nd Bundesliga (1): 2009 (22nd matchday)
• Player of the match day in the 3rd division (6): 2014 (14th matchday), 2017 (38th matchday, 11th matchday, 14th matchday), 2018 (30th matchday, 36th matchday)
• Top scorer in the 3rd division : 2017/18 (22 goals)
• Promotion to the 2nd Bundesliga : 2019 with SV Wehen Wiesbaden

Web links

Commons : Manuel Schäffler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Manuel Schäffler in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Manuel Schäffler in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Manuel Schäffler in the database of weltfussball.de
• Manuel Schäffler in the database of kicker.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Manuel Schäffler from Moorenweis storms for Kiel , FuPa , March 9, 2014, accessed on May 3, 2018
2. ↑ Lauth ensures earned wages , Kicker , February 8, 2009, accessed on May 3, 2018
3. ↑ 2nd Bundesliga - 2008/09 season - 22nd matchday - player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 3, 2018
4. ↑ Hoffmann crowns Wolf's debut , Kicker, March 1, 2009, accessed on May 3, 2018
5. ↑ Schäffler: Maximum motivation against the lions , Münchner Merkur , September 9, 2010, accessed on May 4, 2018
6. ↑ Ex-lion Schäffler, of all things, bites , Kicker, January 29, 2011, accessed on May 4, 2018
7. ↑ Schäffler preserves the FCI series , Kicker, April 8, 2012, accessed on May 4, 2018
8. ↑ 2nd Bundesliga season 2011/12 29th matchday Eleven of the day , kicker, accessed on May 5, 2018
9. ↑ Manuel Schäffler about to join the starting XI? , Augsburger Allgemeine , November 23, 2012, accessed on May 4, 2018
10. ↑ Ingolstadts Schäffler reinforces the storks report on kicker.de from January 31, 2014, accessed on January 31, 2014.
11. ↑ Ralph Hasenhüttl announces changes - Manuel Schäffler changes to Holstein Kiel , liga-zwei.de, February 1, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2018
12. ↑ 3rd league season 2014/15 14 game day player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 4, 2018
13. ↑ Triple pack! Schäffler shoots Holstein to victory , kicker, October 18, 2014, accessed on May 4, 2018
14. ↑ KSV sorts out Heider, Weidlich and Schäffler , Kieler Nachrichten , May 16, 2016, accessed on May 6, 2018
15. ↑ Training start with new addition Manuel Schäffler. (No longer available online.) In: svwehen-wiesbaden.de. June 18, 2016, archived from the original on June 29, 2016 ; Retrieved June 29, 2016 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
16. ↑ No. 9 remains until 2019. (No longer available online.) In: svwehen-wiesbaden.de. May 25, 2017, archived from the original on May 7, 2018 ; Retrieved May 25, 2017 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
17. ↑ 3rd League Torjäger 2016/17 , kicker, accessed on May 6, 2018
18. ↑ 3rd league season 2016/17 38th matchday player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 6, 2018
19. ↑ Hain and Schäffler meet from experience, Girth as Greenhorn , Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung , December 18, 2017, accessed on May 6, 2018
20. ↑ 3rd league season 2017/18 11th matchday player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 6, 2018
21. ↑ 3rd league season 2017/18, 14th matchday player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 6, 2018
22. ↑ Schäffler scores in almost every second game , Wiesbadener Kurier , March 9, 2018, accessed on May 13, 2018
23. ↑ 3rd league season 2017/18 30th matchday player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 13, 2018
24. ↑ 3rd league season 2017/18 36th matchday player of the day , kicker, accessed on May 13, 2018
25. ↑ 3rd League Torjäger 2017/18 , Kicker, accessed on May 13, 2018
26. ↑ SVWW extends contract with Manuel Schäffler. In: svwehen-wiesbaden.de. June 11, 2019, accessed June 11, 2019 . 
27. ↑ hessenschau.de: Schäffler leaves SVWW for the second league , August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020
28. ↑ Schäffler burns for the club fcn.de, on August 14, 2020, accessed on August 14, 2020